The national registration process serves to both ensure membership compliance and to track and monitor the demographic profile of Swimming Canada for the purposes of strategic planning, reporting, risk management and programming. The registration cycle begins annually on September 1st and ends on August 31st.

3. Rules and Procedures: 3.1. All Coaches working with registered Swimming Canada swimmers must register annually as a Coach via the Swimming Canada online registration system, prior to becoming active in a coaching position.

3.2. The coach registration process is initiated in the online registration system by a Registrar and requires the coach to meet the registration requirements of Swimming Canada, the CSCTA and the Provincial Section.

3.3. Registration is complete when the Swimming Canada, CSCTA and Provincial Section registrations have been processed fully in the online registration system and the coach has met the minimum certification qualifications as state below and full payment has been made.

3.4. All coaches must be a minimum of 15 years of age to actively coach in a Swimming Canada affiliated program.

3.5. The registration period for coaches is September 1 to August 31 of each competitive season.

3.6. Coaches working with Swimming Canada registered swimmers must be registered in A1, A2, B, C or D category.

3.7. It is incumbent upon the Coach to manage their certification levels.

All returning Coaches (all categories) have until November 30th to become at a minimum Swimming Teacher CERTIFIED or Fundamentals Coach Level 1 CERTIFIED.

3.10. First year Coaches (all categories) have until November 30th to complete the following:

a) Community Sport Coach course to achieve Community Sport Coach IN-TRAINING status OR

c) Complete at least one of the following: Red Cross WSI / I Can Swim Teacher application to achieve ‘Swimming Teacher in-training’ status.

3.11. First year coaches referred to in the previous point (3.11) are not eligible to coach at any sanctioned competition unless they are being mentored and accompanied by a coach certified at a higher level.

3.12. Community Sport Coaches and Swimming Teacher IN-TRAINING coaches are not eligible to attend any sanctioned competition unless being supervised and accompanied by a mentor coach certified at a higher level.

3.13. Swimming 101 candidates are eligible to attend sanctioned competitions once the Swimming 101 course has been completed.

3.14. A Community Sport Coach may coach two swimming seasons at this level, and prior to November 30 of their third swimming season must progress to Fundamental Coach (level 1) IN-TRAINING status.